Weill Cornell Medicine has been awarded a five-year, $9 million Program Project Grant (P01) from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to better understand how and why patients with an aggressive and incurable form of lymphoma initially respond to treatment, only to relapse over time.

World experts in neurodegenerative diseases gathered at Weill Cornell Medicine Sept. 25 for the sixth annual Appel Alzheimer’s Disease Research Institute Symposium, sponsored by the Appel Institute and its home department, the Feil Family Brain and Mind Research Institute. Every year, the symposium highlights the latest discoveries in the field, as researchers work their way toward a cure.

A dynamic culture of mentorship should be raised to the level of a major strategic priority at academic medical centers to maximize their success, according to new commentary by administrators from Weill Cornell Medicine and the Association of American Medical Colleges.

The second annual Dean’s Symposium on Opportunities for Entrepreneurship and Academic Drug Development highlighted the resources available to Weill Cornell Medicine investigators to help them turn their research findings into new treatments and therapies for patients.

With a $7.5 million gift from the Friedman Family Foundation endowed by Stephen and Vice Chair Overseer Barbara Friedman, Weill Cornell Medicine has established an innovative cross-campus center dedicated to improving human health through research in the complex relationship between nutrition, inflammation and the development of disease.

Dr. Francis Lee, a leading physician-scientist whose research focuses on anxiety disorders, has been named chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medicine and psychiatrist-in-chief at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, effective July 1.

Every family in America has an immigration story, whether it was a journey by steamship 100 years ago or an arrival by airplane one month ago. In their timely new anthology, Andrew Tisch and Mary Skafidas showcase a variety of voices whose own origin stories illustrate the rich fabric of cultures and backgrounds that comprise the United States.

With their education behind them, the graduates will now embark on their residencies, postdocs, fellowships and other phases of their careers. But no matter where they go or what they do, Dr. Choi said, they need to remember what inspired them to pursue careers in medicine and science, and hold true to those ideals.